boehner versus obama. >> give me my life back. having the same conversation and somehow the election didn't move the needle at all. >> it's again, it's the can being kicked down the road and the end of the road is here. >> sounds like it. now, however, we should say that the president and speaker john boehner both say that they are now open to compromise. when you dig into their statements further it's hard to know on what point they are going to compromise. let's listen. >> i'm open to compromise. i'm open to new ideas. i'm committed to solving our fiscal challenges. but, i will refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. pay down the entire deficit while people like me making over 2 auto thousand dollars aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes. >> i'm not going to do that. instead of raising tax rates on the american people and damage it will do to our economy. let's start to actually solve the problem. let's focus on tax reform that close loopholes and lowers tax rates. instead of arbitrary cuts endanger our national de